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...friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell...
...Item on Senator Ashurst's introduction of a bill for the deposit of "hot money" in closed banks "to thaw frozen assets...
Around this simple human situation Author Maxwell has written his second novel, a story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic, will melt many a common reader to tears...
Eccentric Harry Kendall Thaw, 67, who killed Stanford White for seducing his wife, turned up in Berlin after eye treatments in Paris, regretted that he could not enjoy "the best blondes and beer in the world." Said he: "I wish I could see them better. The blondes, I mean. Going to a nightclub when you can't see is like going for a ride on a scenic railway during an eclipse...
...Washington from the Winchester, Va. farm where he retired ten years ago went eccentric Harry K. Thaw, murderer of Stanford White, to contest a $10,000 damage suit brought by the Shoreham Hotel's Headwaiter Paul Jaeck. Waiter Jaeck charged that Thaw, when handed a $57 dinner check in 1935, had attacked him, ground cigaret ashes into his eye. Waiter Jaeck was awarded $2,200 damages...